[CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Stephen Harris wrote:
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> (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style)
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Copied from HTML into email program.  then sent as plain text.  complain 
to thunderbird.

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